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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:19:30 -0500
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 11/20/2012 11:09 AM, John Gordon wrote:
> In <3d71f175-164e-494c-a521-2eaa5679b524@googlegroups.com> Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> writes:
>
>> What, in your view, would be the most intuitive alternative name?
> keyboard_input().
>

Well, since Python already has input() and raw_input(), it would then be
clear that keyboard_input() would take some kind of data from the
keyboard, not send it.



-- 

DaveA